Authors

Adam Flomenbaum

Leads the midwest account strategy team at Outbrain, advising the region's largest brands, agencies, and publishers on their content marketing initiatives. Prior to Outbrain, Flomenbaum was part of the social media team at The New Yorker and later joined Conde Nast's consumer marketing division.

Adam Thompson

Adam Thompson has spent the last 15 years helping businesses use digital technologies to achieve their goals and better serve their customers. He is currently SEO Manager at The SSL Store, a cybersecurity company headquartered in sunny St Petersburg, Florida. In his spare time, you're likely to find him biking, fishing, traveling, or playing with the latest technology that caught his eye.

Adi (Yehuda) Faians

Adi is Marketing Technologies Project Manager at Outbrain, with a track record of designing and implementing various information systems across different verticals. She is an enthusiastic CrossFitter, who would rather flip tires than go to lunch.

Alexander Erlmeier

Alexander Erlmeier is Managing Director Central Europe of Outbrain, based in Munich. Alex is a serial entrepreneur and has 20 years of professional experience in online and digital businesses. He founded several startups and worked for the internationally leading companies AOL and Mail.ru. Alex is a sought-after partner for publishers and brands who want to focus more strategically on content marketing and native advertising. When Alex isn't speaking at conferences or establishing a company, you will find him skiing, mountain biking, or capturing his travels with his old analog Leica camera.

Audrey Ference

Anthony Hearne

Anthony (Ant) Hearne leads the Global Sales Marketing efforts at Outbrain from its U.S. headquarters in New York. An experienced member of Outbrain’s Executive team he joined the Content Discovery leader as the Regional Director, SEA, India & New Markets in 2012 and was responsible for setting the business on a strong path to growth and founding its territories across Asia. Now part of the global marketing team he is responsible for expanding the company’s global sales marketing efforts and ensuring that a consistent and impactful story is delivered across all customer touch points.

Asaf Hochman

Senior Director of Product Marketing, he focuses on Outbrain Amplify and works with brands and agencies to do better marketing. Previously, Asaf was a digital strategist at ad agencies Grey, TBWA, and Publicis, and also spent time on the client-side at Red Bull and General Mills.

Aric Linkins

As an ambassador for the further growth and legitimization of digital content marketing, Aric specializes in helping various publishers exceed their Amplify KPIs as a Senior Customer Success Manager at Outbrain.

Aljaz Fajmut

Amit Lavi

Amit is the CEO and Co-founder of Marketing Envy, a startup focused marketing agency based in Tel Aviv. He mentors at Google Campus and the Microsoft Accelerator, is a Facebook and Google Alumni, and part of the Google Experts Network.

Andy Cheong

Andy Cheong is the Product Marketing Director at Marketing Evolution. An experienced enterprise solutions leader with 19+ years of experience in software and management consulting industries. Cheong focuses on solution development and growth strategy through innovation and market alignment.

Anat Oransky

Anat is Outbrain's Marketing Manager in Israel. She's in love with marketing, Data, and everything in-between for over 15 years. In her previous roles, she was managing marketing efforts and research at Intel in Silicon Valley. Anat is a super mom for three and a runner.

Ayal

Brandon Bergmark

Brandon Bergmark is the Head of Programmatic Sales in North America for Outbrain. Prior to Outbrain, Brandon held leadership positions at AOL, NBC Universal, and Fox Interactive. Brandon lives in Oakland, CA, with his wife and two children, graduated from UC Santa Barbara, and received his MBA from Saint Mary's College of California.

Becca Chandler

Becca Chandler is a Marketing Content Specialist at ZoomInfo, a leading business information database that helps companies accelerate growth and profitability. Becca writes for ZoomInfo’s B2B blog on topics related to sales, marketing, and recruiting. In her free time, Becca likes to travel and capture special moments with her camera

Ben Hazan

Ben Hazan is a UX & Marketing Designer at Outbrain.
Delivering mostly digital experiences and branding campaigns for all the Outbrainers globally, and doing all with a passion and love for this profession. Actually, his profession is his hobby.

Boaz Hershkovitz

Boaz is a Senior Customer Success Specialist at Outbrain's global support team. Based out of Israel he helps marketers world wide take their first steps on the Outbrain Amplify platform, and assist advertisers with a variety of questions.
In his free time, Boaz is a major aviation geek, and when he's not flying somewhere exotic you can find him roaming travel hacking blogs.

Bryan Hernandez

Bryan Hernandez is a Client Partner at Outbrain with over 5 years of experience working with performance marketers. Prior to Outbrain, Bryan was at AdRoll where he was helping brands develop retargeting strategies. Bryan is passionate about digital marketing, building relationships and whipping up ice cream on warm NYC days.

Cate Battey

Cate works on the Customer Success Management team where she supports all Midwest business out of the small and mighty Chicago office. She also leads regional efforts for WE Outbrain, our women's empowerment initiative. When she's not with the Outbrain crew, you can find her biking around Chicago or hitting the high note at Sunday night karaoke.

Colin Doody

Chinyelu Onuora

Chinyelu Onuora is a Strategist at the Additive Agency (and former Outbrainer!). When she’s not partnering with purpose-driven brands to advance business and social change, you can find her exploring New York City on foot.

Christoph Kruse

Christoph Kruse is Marketing Manager DACH at Outbrain and responsible for all marketing activities in the German-speaking countries. Previously, he worked as an account manager for the communications agencies Edelman and HBI. In his spare time, Christoph enjoys going to concerts and doing all sorts of sports, preferably in the countryside near Munich.

Christo Papadopoulos

Christo Papadopoulos is a Senior Customer Success Manager for Outbrain Amplify. He is responsible for ensuring that thousands of marketers across a variety of verticals are able to successfully create and manage ROI positive content strategies at scale, while also supporting internal teams, and the creation of internal processes.

Carlie Stazzone

Carlie leads direct and agency relationships under the Dentsu Aegis umbrella as well as the New England territory at Outbrain. Responsible for acquiring and nurturing key relationships with Fortune 500s, she has been with Outbrain for over five years and currently resides in the cozy East Village of Manhattan.

David Attard

David is an inquisitive web designer who frequently shares actionable tips and tricks at CollectiveRay.com When he's not blogging about web design, something he's been into for the last 12 years, he's usually dreaming about his next big thing.

David Basulto

David Basulto is the founder of iOgrapher and author of Life. Camera. Action. Basulto became a first-time entrepreneur at the age of fifty-one, and he now spends his time helping individuals to create Hollywood-quality films on mobile devices, developing new products, and spending time with his wife and nine-year-old son.

Diana Ford

Diana Ford is a digital marketing specialist. She've been blogging for several years. Her writing expertise spans across online marketing, SEO, social media, and blogging. Besides, she likes to do outreach marketing, product reviews, and online marketing guides.

David Kostman

David Kostman is Co-CEO of Outbrain. He’s served in that role since November 2017. In addition to his role at Outbrain, Kostman serves as the chairman of the board of NICE Ltd., as a director of privately held companies ironSource and TIVIT SA and is Co-Founder of Nanoosh. He has also served on the board of Retalix.

Daphna Michaeli

Currently helping to grow and scale Outbrain's international teams.
My focus has been on recruiting, employee development, training, and ensuring that Outbrain continues to be an irresistible organization.

D'Ottavio Domenica

Domenica D'Ottavio is the Brand Relationship Manager at Fractl, a boutique growth agency based in Delray Beach, FL. When she’s not musing over the latest developments in content and PR, you can find her planning her next international trip, likely over a bowl of risotto.

Andrew Burke

Erika Dean

A North Carolina native, global operations strategist and product innovation enthusiast, Erika Dean is the Global Product Go-to-Market Director at Outbrain. In this role, Erika quarterbacks the global go-to-market operational cadence for Outbrain's new product launch strategies.
Erika is passionate about spreading kindness around the world. As the founder and global chair of OBGood, Outbrain’s corporate social responsibility initiative, Erika and the regional chairs curate volunteer programming designed to benefit the community and increase employee engagement.

Ehud Basis

Ehud is an Online Acquisition Director at Outbrain. He previously led the PPC teams at Conduit and eTeacher, using his breadth of knowledge to analyze and optimize performance to achieve company goals. Ehud lives in Israel with his wife and 3-year-old son. He loves following the NBA.

Evelina Jarbin

Evelina is Head of Account Management Amplify at Outbrain London. Working in Digital Marketing for the past 5 years, she's dipped her toes in everything from creative production and website creation to government projects. Currently really enjoying the growing importance of data and analytics in any field within marketing and everything that comes with it. Originally from Sweden, but have adapted fairly well to life in the UK. Still missing good filter coffee, though.

Fabien Schwartz

Fabien Schwartz is the Co-Founder and Director of Schwartz Consulting, a business growth catalyst acting through scalable digital marketing models. Fabien was the Team Lead of the Performance Marketing Pod at Outbrain France, helping marketers to build scalable ROI Content Discovery acquisition. He’s developed strong methodologies and now works in partnership with Google and Facebook Advertising experts, offering a 360° solution in Paid Digital Marketing.

Faye Liddle

Faye Liddle is Head of Agency Sales at Outbrain, living in London. She is captaining Outbrain's team for the Advertising Softball Team this summer and looking forward to joining some her peers at the MSF Fun Run in Regent's Park in April.

Gal Nissani

Gal is the Conversion Optimization Director at Outbrain where her experience in data analysis, SEO and user experience all come together to make her an integral part of the self-serve team. Her past roles at Tomedes and Yehoshua TBWA represent a perfect medley of marketing and management which she uses to support all of her current initiatives.

Grace Berry

Galit Gablinger

Galit Gablinger is heading the account management team in Israel. Galit joined Outbrain in May 2012 as part of the Amplify Team in the phase of building the Israeli market. Her focus is data-driven analysis and optimization of client activity. Prior to joining Outbrain Galit worked at shopping.com (acquired by eBay) as an analyst for the catalogue team. In her free time Galit likes traveling and hiking.

Gilad de Vries

Senior Vice President of Strategy, who previously led the brands and agencies team at Outbrain. Gilad brings more than 19 years of experience in the digital media and technology fields. Before joining Outbrain, Gilad was VP of Digital Media and Principal at Carmel Ventures, one of Israel's top-tier venture capital firms, where he was highly engaged in Carmel's investments in digital media, Internet and mobile startups. Before Carmel, Gilad was a Senior Director of Marketing and Product Management at Comverse Technology, a leading provider of value-added services for Telco Providers. Gilad holds a B.A. in economics and business management from Bar-Ilan University and a Global MBA cum laude from the IDC Herzelia. Gilad is also a first lieutenant (reserve) in the Israeli Army’s technology unit (Mamram).

Gil Dudkiewicz

Gil Dudkiewicz is the Co-Founder and CEO of StartApp, a mobile media, and advertising company. Prior to StartApp, he was the CEO of SweetIM, which was acquired by Perion Network (NASDAQ: PERI) in November 2012 for $41 million. Gil was also founder and CEO of MyDTV/MeeVee, a personalized television guide, and television search. Gil holds an MBA from UC Berkeley as well as a B.Sc. in Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Gil Lederer

Gemma Isaacs

Gemma is Senior Manager on the Brands & Agencies team for Outbrain UK and heads up Outbrain's PR efforts in the UK.
Gemma has a passion for start-ups, content marketing and looking at future trends. She illustrates enthusiasm and positivity in all aspects of business, helping to gain the trust of clients and become an integral part of their digital content strategies.

Gulshan Verma

Gili Alperovitch Zohar

Tech and Marketing Associate at Outbrain
A marketing and communication specialist for the past 4 years. Gili enjoys working with developers, taking part in nurturing communities and telling the Outbrain's technology story.

Harel Amir

Harel heads up Outbrain's Extended Network. He is an industry specialist with over 15 years of experience in software engineering, data, operations, management, and online advertising. He was previously responsible for revenue strategy and growth at myThings, leading the company's global ad-operations organization, including account services, business intelligence, and professional services in 10 countries.

Hope Horner

Hope Horner is a three-time entrepreneur that has been featured in Inc.'s Top 25 Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2017, Entrepreneur's 11 Marketing Experts that Could Change Your Business, and Pepperdine’s 40 Under 40. Horner is a regular contributor at Entrepreneur, Forbes, Inc., and multiple other publications where she shares startup insights and scalable solutions. She is currently working on her third startup, Lemonlight, an LA-based business that produces and distributes branded video content at scale.

Haran Rosenzweig

Haran is leading the performance sales & new business efforts in the EMEA region. Prior to his position at Outbrain, he managed teams and projects based on content and performance oriented native advertising media buying.

Idan Vakrat

Idan Vakrat is a product manager at Outbrain on the Amplify team. He joined Outbrain with a vast experience in product management from an enterprise software solutions and Fin-Tech startup. Idan also holds a Physics degree from the Technion and MBA from Tel Aviv University.

Itamar Gero

Itamar Gero is the founder and CEO of SEOReseller.com, a white label SEO company and digital marketing solutions provider that empowers agencies—and their local business clientele—all over the world. When he isn’t working, he’s traveling the world, meditating, or dreaming (in code).

Inna Yatsyna

Inna Yatsyna is a Brand and Community Development Specialist at Serpstat, an all-in-one SEO platform. She’s a passionate lover of writing useful posts and helping people. Also, Inna likes reading, traveling and especially dogs. Connect with her on Twitter or LinkedIn.

Ioana Sima

Ioana is the CMO of DigitalWebProperties. She oversees link-building, social media, and on-page SEO efforts for the company's clients. Despite the fact that her academic background is completely unrelated to her position within the company, she has decided to pursue a career in digital marketing. Her dream is to, one day, be in charge of marketing efforts of a major architecture studio or online publication.

Itamar Goldfeld

Itamar is leading the biz-dev & CS in the Israeli market, Outbrain.
Prior to his position at Outbrain, he managed some of Israel’s leading brands, with 15 years of marketing and strategy management experience.

Jack McCann

Joe Addona

Originally from Philadelphia (Go Eagles), and currently leading West Coast relationships as our brainy Sales Director, Joe recently made a pilgrimage out West, residing (and working!) in sunny San Diego.

Jarrod Wright

Jarrod Wright is a creative marketing nerd with more than a decade of marketing experience, working with businesses both as an external consultant and as an internal lead. He is currently the head of Marketing at Chargebacks911.com, a company that helps online retailers prevent and dispute chargebacks. Jarrod appreciates his Sales department and they have a fruitful and cooperative relationship. You can follow him on Twitter to learn more.

Jennifer Bassett

Jennifer is Outbrain's former Managing Editor. She has 10+ years of experience in the content strategy and editorial space. She began her career as a book editor and has consulted for top agencies, non-profits, and media companies including Memorial Sloan Kettering, Havas Worldwide New York, and Interbrand. When she's not talking content, she's playing music with her bands The Missing Footage and The Living Kills. You can read more of her writing at jennifer-bassett.com.

Jessie Butner

Jessie has launched influencer campaigns and developed blogger networks for a wide range of brands including household names in the B2B, B2C, and entertainment industries. Currently, she works at Go Fish Digital, where she heads up the Influencer Marketing division.

Joseph Dyson

Joseph Dyson is a Search Berg specialist, part of a team of marketing gurus with a collective successful resume of over 15,000 finished SEO projects. The professional team at Search Berg specializes in planning, supervising, and providing digital media marketing solutions across various industries, with 15 years of experience. The team also specializes in providing SEO marketing solutions for small business, link building services, and local SEO services. They cover a wide range of areas, including digital marketing, lead generation, and web development.

Jeilan Devanesan

Jeilan's a copywriter at Venngage, the online infographic maker. When he's not writing about design trends or content marketing hacks, he's usually reading a book, writing fantasy stories or playing basketball. Connect with him on Linkedin or Twitter

Jeremy Ellens

Jeremy is the co-founder of LeadQuizzes, a quiz and survey software built for marketers to increase their leads and learn about their audience. Their users have generated over 4.7M leads and 73.9M questions answered. He is frequently featured in Entrepreneur and he and his team have won numerous awards and accolades.

Jillian Gogel

Jillian Gogel is the content marketing manager at AppsFlyer, the global leader in mobile attribution and marketing analytics. She is passionate about creating sustainable relationships between partners, marketers, and clients through data-driven content, and thinks often of uplifting future content strategies. In her spare time, she manages her personal blog, travels the road less taken, and creates oil pastel artwork.

Joe James

Joe works for Outbrain down-under, as the Head of Brands & Agencies. He has worked in ad-land for the last 10+ years across OOH, TV, print, and digital. When he is not talking about Outbrain and the benefits of Discovery he is either taking photos, watching movies or playing sport.

John LoGioco

John is Executive Vice President and member of the founding team at Outbrain. John leads strategic initiatives and partnerships in the messaging space and Outbrain For Chat. Prior John led the acquisition of Visual Revenue and founded the Outbrain business development and sales teams from pre-revenue to $100MM. Prior to joining Outbrain, John held sales and management positions with Time Inc. and Reuters in New York, Los Angeles and South Florida. John started his career in the media department of ad agency, Ammirati & Puris in New York. An honors graduate from the University of Colorado, John resides in New Jersey with his family.

John Stevens

Joshua keller

Joshua Keller serves as co-CEO of Global Agora, a venture capital firm that has launched eight of its own successful companies to date and invests in seed-stage, high-growth start-ups.
He is an accomplished entrepreneur with more than 16 years of experience in internet marketing and digital advertising. Joshua is the co-founder of Union Square Media Group, a leading full-service digital media agency whose clients include Fortune 500 companies and top brands such as Wall Street Journal, Nestlé, and Match.com. In 2017, Joshua co-founded Maximus Live, an innovative native advertising software company. Prior to Global Agora, Joshua co-founded Headlines & Heroes, LLC where he spent several years building and scaling businesses. With expertise in providing strategic direction to companies, Joshua has spearheaded multiple mergers and acquisitions, including Need2Know, which was recently acquired by Cheddar. He is a member of the board of directors for Spark Networks, the leading global dating company, and SUP ATX, the world’s largest stand-up paddleboard manufacturer.

Joyce Chou

Joyce Chou is a Content Specialist at Compose.ly, a content platform that matches businesses with seasoned freelance writers. When she’s not writing for Compose.ly’s blog, you can find her hiking the great outdoors or watching animal videos on loop.

James Wilson

Previously a quality analyst at Net Solutions, James later moved onto business analysis and discovered a passion for information architecture, wireframes, and user experience. James loves writing on various topics, both technical and non-technical.

Karen Walden

Karen is Outbrain's Marketing Manager for the UK and Northern Europe. She brings 6+ years of experience in marketing and sales. A person who deeply appreciates excellent marketing, Karen uses her wordsmithing skills and media-savvy to help take companies to the next level.

Katarina Ereš

Katarina is a Munich original with Croatian roots. In her position as Director Sales South, she is responsible for the Southern Germany regions, Austria and Switzerland. The high demand for quality content already played a major role in her previous position at Condé Nast as Sales Director Digital for VOGUE, AD, and Style. In her free time, she can be met Stand-Up Paddling at one of the many lakes in the Bavarian area, hiking in the mountains and always looking for some good food and wine.

Kayla Matthews

Kayla Matthews writes about digital technologies and online marketing for publications like Contently, Convince and Convert, Marketing Dive and PR Newswire. You can read more from Kayla by following her on LinkedIn, or by checking out her personal technology blog: productivitybytes.com.

Kathleen Benvenuto

Kathleen is a performance-based Customer Success Manager at Outbrain. She collaborates with our top US affiliate partners and performance-focused brands on how to drive the best results. When she’s not optimizing campaigns, Kathleen can be found in the great outdoors hiking with her dog, Jack.

Keith Pepper

Karen Louise Davies

Karen Louise Davies has a 20-year background in copywriting, ghostwriting and editing, with additional experience in social media management, leading to her current role as Content Creator and Writer for web analytics company www.thisisbeacon.com

Kim Rau

Kim is part of the Customer Onboarding team, based in our NYC office. Her interests include bungee jumping, cage diving with Great Whites and helping new marketers start their Outbrain journey off on the right foot.

Kriti Jetley

Kriti manages Brands and Campaigns at Outbrain South East Asia & India. Prior to Outbrain, she spent most of her time working with global brands and helping them carve out their content journey. Based in Singapore, she has been working in the content space for the past 5 years.

Keren Zimbris

Keren Zimbris is Head of Content Compliance, Global at Outbrain.
Her "digital advertising career" started 6 years ago at DSNR Media group, she started as an AM and finished there as head of mobile media.
Outside of work she enjoys playing basketball, snowboarding and listening to music, especially if it's served on a vinyl record ;)

Lior Charka

Lior is a Product Manager at Outbrain Amplify. He's just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit. He took the midnight train going anywhere. One day, he will have the man-cave he always dreamt of.

Lauren Pica

As the brains (and voice) behind the Outbrain brand communications (and our Head of US Marketing!), Lauren spends her days of marketing scrappiness doing everything in her power to gain and retain happy customers.

Lila Tenenbown

Lila is a seasoned Event Marketer with over 10 year of providing innovative, high-touch experiences for brands. When she's not running around making event magic, you can find her playing classical piano, car camping, or enjoying a cold Diet Coke while watching a West Texas sunset.

Lisa Wong

Lisa is the Director of Research and Insights on Outbrain's Product Marketing team. She manages key internal data initiatives as well as research partnerships. With an extensive background in quantitative marketing research, her goal is to weave actionable insights into every story. In her spare time, Lisa is eating her way across the globe with gusto.

Mark Spera

Mark was the founder of, BeGood an ecommerce platform, where he led acquisition marketing. His writing and thought leadership has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, SF Chronicle, The Guardian, and Reason Magazine. Mark was the first marketing hire at GC, Menlo and Union Square Venture-backed RealtyShares. He runs a marketing team of 6 today.

Martina Burton

Martina likes to keep content fresh, fun and most importantly, profitable. Her knack for placing herself in the customer's shoes allows her to educate marketers on the best practices of Outbrain. Aside from putting marketing dollars to use, Martina ghostwrites for small business blogs, literary journals, and independent publishers.

Matthew Smith

Matthew Smith is a Senior. Editor at ContentDevelopmentPros.com, a leading inbound marketing company that provides comprehensive content solutions, web design and development, SEO, and content writing services to small and mid-sized businesses.

Melissa Burns

Melissa Burns is a marketing consultant, who occasionally also provides workshops for start-ups and small businesses. Melissa writes about digital marketing and business innovation with the single goal of sharing her 6 years' experience with other marketers.

Matt Crenshaw

Matt Crenshaw is the vice president of product marketing at Outbrain. He is responsible for setting the product vision and delivering solutions for publishers and brands that build audience relationships and grow revenue. Reach him @mcrenshawATL.

Megan Wenzl

Megan Wenzl is a writer based in Chicago. She enjoys creating useful, informative stories to help businesses succeed. Megan is currently the community outreach associate for Clique Studios. When not writing, Megan enjoys watching movies and spending time with family.

Maggie Flick

Maggie Flick is Director Sales, North at Outbrain and responsible for all brands and agencies in Northern Germany. Her consulting focuses on reaching conversion goals (leads, sales, app downloads among others). Maggie has been working for over four years with some of the largest brands and performance marketers in Germany.

Michelle Caruthers

Michelle Caruthers is the Email Marketing Manager at Outbrain. After a several years of feeling out the general marketing space, she developed a fiery passion for turning the tables and creating emails that people actually want to read. When she isn't busy testing catchy subject lines, you can find her Yelping the nearest Starbucks and Snapchatting other people's dogs in Central Park.

Mike Nobil

Melodie Lascar

Melodie is Video AdOperations Manager at Outbrain.
Born & raised Parisian living in Tel Aviv with her husband & two old pugs. Enjoy cooking, watching the Simpsons & Family Guy and her next life goal is to (finally) get a driver's license.

Mike Mathis

Matthew Opatrny

Matt is an Account Coordinator on Outbrain Amplify from the San Francisco office. He always keeps his eyes peeled for good pieces to read and engaging videos to watch. Outside the office, he spends his time on the yoga mat, eating good food, traveling, and hiking.

Matt Palmaccio

Matt Palmaccio is Sales Marketing Director at Outbrain, based in New York. Matt joined Outbrain in July 2015, having previously held marketing roles at both Conde Nast and Hearst. In his free time, Matt enjoys exploring the city but also loves weekend escapes to the Hudson Valley in upstate New York.

Michael Quoc

Michael Quoc is the founder and CEO of Dealspotr, an open social platform connecting up-and-coming brands with lifestyle influencers to run sponsored campaigns, and giving trend-seeking shoppers access to today’s best deals. Previously, Michael was the Director of Product Management for Yahoo's media lab. There, he spearheaded the launch of several innovative services in the live video and mobile social networking areas. Michael has been awarded nine patents relating to mobile and social network applications and technology. Follow him on Twitter at @michaelquoc.

Mark Simon

Mark Simon is the co-founder of Brax.io where he helps performance marketers scale, automate and simplify native advertising. Previously he helped e-commerce and software companies acquire customers through organic & paid search. He loves data visualization, nutrition and everything outdoors which is his excuse for taking his kids on crazy adventures. You can follow him on Twitter @mesimoniv.

Nir Elharar

Nir is heading the online Customer Acquisition for Outbrain. He was previously the Head of Media Department at GO Internet Marketing specializing in performance marketing. Prior to that, he worked at Google Dublin as an Account Manager for eCommerce B2B and Healthcare clients. Nir lives in Israel with his wife and 2 daughters.

Nate Lozier

Nate is a content development specialist focusing in video. He has five years experience in digital marketing and, along with the rest of the Outbrain team, is here to inspire marketers to produce great, engaging content for their own customers. Nate previously worked as an electrical engineer and loves using data to tell stories wherever possible.

Nels Gilbertson-Urtel

Nels Gilbertson-Urtel is the Content Marketing Manager at Brandpoint.com, a Minneapolis-based content marketing services agency. He enjoys writing, collaborating with his coworkers and being a new dad to a six-month old drool factory name Charles.

Osnat Rabi

Osnat is a Product Manager at Outbrain Amplify. Born and raised in a small village in Israel, she would always prefer the countryside over the city. She's training daily for the next triathlon, to keep healthy in body and spirit, but will never eat a tomato or cucumber.

Paola Simmons

Paola Simmons is the Sales Development Team Lead at Outbrain. She is based out of the NYC office but is originally from Nicaragua. Paola is passionate about traveling, so far she has been to 23 countries and counting!

Pepjin Groeneveld

Roy Ben Ezra

Roy is the Head of Inside Sales at Outbrain, based in our NYC office.
Prior to his current role, Roy established and managed Outbrain`s Client Onboarding and Content Review teams. He is passionate about technology, digital marketing and driving success to Outbrain Amplify`s customers.

Rachel Feidelman

Ronny Lempel

Ronny Lempel joined Outbrain in May 2014 as VP of Outbrain's Recommendations Group, where he oversees the computation and delivery of the company's organic and paid recommendations, as well as the auction mechanisms that run in the paid recommendations' marketplace.
Prior to joining Outbrain, Ronny spent 6.5 years as a Senior Director at Yahoo Labs. Ronny joined Yahoo in October 2007 to open and establish its Research Lab in Haifa, Israel. During his tenure at Yahoo, Ronny led R&D activities in diverse areas, including Web Search, Web Page Optimization, Recommender Systems and Ad Targeting. In January 2013 Ronny was appointed Yahoo Labs’ Chief Data Scientist in addition to his managerial duties.
Prior to joining Yahoo!, Ronny spent 4.5 years at IBM's Haifa Research Lab with the Information Retrieval Group, where his duties included research and development in the area of enterprise search systems. During his tenure at IBM, Ronny managed the Information Retrieval Group for two years.
Ronny received his PhD, which focused on search engine technology, from the Faculty of Computer Science at Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in early 2003. During his PhD studies, Ronny spent two summer internships at the AltaVista search engine.
Ronny has authored over 40 research papers in leading conferences and journals, and holds 17 granted US patents. He regularly serves on program and organization committees of Web-focused conferences, and has taught advanced courses on Search Engine Technologies and Big Data Technologies at Technion.

Ran Locar

Ran is a Senior Data Scientist at Outbrain, mining data and applying machine learning to terabyte sized datasets, to optimize Outbrain's recommendations. Ran has over 20 years of software development, troubleshooting, reverse engineering, data analysis, and data science experience. He has a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Business Administration from the Tel-Aviv University, and is a frequent participant in Data Science competitions. Prior to joining Outbrain, Ran was a Big Data Engineer at Amdocs, building predictive analytics solutions for leading telecommunications providers.

Ram Meshulam

Ram leads the Organic recommendations team. He is responsible for serving recommendations that are engaging for the user but also helping the publishers to meet their goals. He holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science and 8 years of experience in the art and science of industry-level recommender systems.

Reza Nasirabadi

Reza has been working in the digital marketing industry for over 8 years and is Zigma’s top SEO specialist. He became a Google certified digital marketer to help businesses boost their virtual visibility. Apart from his marketing credentials, Reza loves to stay active. You can always catch him shooting hoops or running marathons during his spare time.

Roy Sasson

Roy Sasson is Outbrain’s Chief Data Scientist. His team applies predictive modeling and machine learning research that optimize Outbrain's recommendation system, in strategic areas such as CTR prediction, user classification and mechanism design. Roy has a PhD in Applied Econometrics from Tel-Aviv University, where he has been teaching Econometrics since 2008.

Ryan Gould

Ryan is a Vice President of Strategy and Marketing Services
Elevation Marketing.
As a strategic marketing and branding expert, Ryan helps Elevation’s clients solve their problems and achieve their business goals through integrated marketing solutions distinguished by research, storytelling, engagement, and conversion. With a proven track record of energizing brands, and having worked with a variety of Fortune 500 companies, Ryan is a respected expert in achieving consistent results through creative design, thought-provoking narratives, and innovative problem-solving.

Sabrina Bailey Navalon

Originally from Montreal, Sabrina graduated from McGill University with a degree in Marketing and Finance. Speaking 3 languages fluently (English, French, Spanish and a bit of German) and having spent several years working in the luxury tourism industry, Sabrina has developed a keen understanding of various cultures, which has helped her develop international markets. In her previous roles, she has had the chance to travel extensively and implement/adapt sales and marketing strategies in a way that fit that particular market, whether it be in the Far east, Middle East, USA or Latin America.

Kim Stiglitz

Kim Stiglitz Courvoisier is the content marketing queen at Campaign Monitor. She writes for the Campaign Monitor blog and a number of other publications. She focuses on all things marketing, content and social and loves a good pun.

Sophie Melnik Amitay

Sophie is the head of marketing APAC & EEMEA at Outbrain. She is a Global Brand Strategist, Co-Founder, and Entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience with a measurable track record of creating successful online and offline strategic branding concepts, product lines and events, each time finding the brand story that inspires action and create a strategy to meet ambitious new growth goals. She shares a passion for innovation, a curious mind, and expertise in defining business initiatives and plans, adapting to a changing business and technological landscape.

Sarit Anavim

Sarit Anavim is a former Senior Marketing Technologies Manager at Outbrain. She is responsible for identifying technological needs for the Marketing team by finding and implementing solutions to optimize processes. Originally a software developer, Sarit previously worked at 888 and Conduit across marketing technologies, retention, email marketing and data analysis. Aside from time spent swapping the best of the worst pop songs with her global team, Sarit's first love is baking which allows her to combine her passions for food, measurement and creating things. Sarit currently resides in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Sandeep Balani

Sandeep is Director Business Development, looking after our Indian publishers at Outbrain. He is responsible for growing Outbrain's publisher network in India both on the demand and supply side of the business. As part of his role, he's in responsible for delivering right solutions and strategy for publishers to enable them to achieve their goals and scale through Outbrain.

Stephanie Himoff

Stephanie Himoff is the UK Managing Director, Northern Europe at Outbrain. She has over 20 years of experience spearheading the growth of Internet businesses in Europe working with innovative digital start-ups and world-leading technology. Her passion for the digital space, strong experience of working cross cultures in international businesses and ability to adapt in fast-paced environments are the key factors behind her success.

Sivan Kiperman

Sivan leads Outbrain's international activities for the Small-Medium Publishers segment. She has over 4 years of experience managing strategic relations and projects in the online market, with a focus on the publisher side.
When she's not working, Sivan loves spending time with her daughter, watching a good TV show, and with the time that's left - sleep:)

Sarah Masessa

Sarah is a Marketing Communications Specialist at Outbrain. She previously utilized creative storytelling to create marketing campaigns as a Content Marketing Specialist at VMware. She is passionate about music and is incredibly proud of her ever-growing record collection.

Stav Mishory

Stav Mishory is a product manager at Outbrain on the Amplify team. She joined Outbrain with a vast experience in product management from the gaming industry and a leading online marketing company. currently spending her time on a ski slope in Europe.

Sophie Miller

Sophie is part of Outbrain's International HR Team. She is based in London but looks after all of our European teams - she has a passion for employee engagement and development. In her spare time, Sophie runs endless miles - one day she hopes to have competed a marathon on all 7 continents!

Sujan Patel

Sujan Patel is a partner at Ramp Ventures & co-founder of Web Profits. He has over 14 years of marketing experience and has led the digital marketing strategy for companies like Salesforce, Mint, Intuit, and many other Fortune 500 caliber companies.

Stephen Tracy

Stephen is an award winning analytics and research practitioner, analytics evangelist, blogger, teacher, and all around designer of things made with data. He is currently the Data & Insights Lead, Southeast Asia at SapientNitro, based in Singapore. In his spare time Stephen also blogs on topics related to analytics, storytelling and data visualization at analythical.com. Overall, he is deeply passionate about analytics and research and believes that the best applications of data-driven thinking are always found at the intersection of art and science.

Sarah Wiseman

Sarah Wiseman joined Outbrain in 2015 as a Sales Manager in Australia. Before that, she was already helping brands and their media agencies create meaningful connections with their target audiences at various digital publishers.
It's still a big passion of hers and now her role takes a strategic lens on how she can help brands overcome their business challenges using media. She is also a proud pom who just can't seem to get enough of all Sydney has to offer.

Tom Foran

Tom Foran is Chief Revenue Officer at Outbrain. As CRO, Tom leads all Sales, Business Operations and Client Services globally. Prior to joining Outbrain, Tom was the CRO of Crisp Media, a leading mobile rich media company. As GM of Ad Sales & Operations for Quigo, Tom was instrumental in driving the company's rapid growth (Quigo was acquired by AOL for $340 million in 2007). Tom also worked in business development at NBCi and Yahoo!. Tom graduated summa cum laude/Phi Beta Kappa from Tufts University and resides in New York City with his wife and 2 daughters.

Veronica Gonzalez

Veronica Gonzalez is Vice President, Global Head of Business and Legal Affairs at Outbrain. She oversees Outbrain's commercial contracts with Outbrain's publisher network and content providers. Previously a law firm associate, Veronica is enjoying the fast-paced yet relaxed atmosphere of a growing technology company. Aside from time exploring restaurants across NYC, Veronica is an obsessive traveler dedicated to seeing every corner of the world. Veronica currently resides in New York, NY.

Victor Blasco

Víctor Blasco is the founder and CEO of the explainer video company Yum Yum Videos. He is also an audiovisual designer and video marketing expert. Aside from running the business, he loves studying Chinese philosophy and is a real geek for science fiction films and comics!

Victor Pan

Victor Pan is the Head of SEO at HubSpot where he is responsible for growing the company’s organic traffic and international presence. Before joining HubSpot, Victor was a Search Director at Catalyst, a GroupM agency, and an early employee at WordStream. When he is not obsessed with search, he is practicing his swings for kendo, the way of the sword.

Walter Lim

Walter Lim is a social media marketer, brand storyteller, digital geek, and trainer. Founder of Cooler Insights, he loves to help businesses create, nurture and grow winning brands through storytelling, content marketing, social media, and PR.

Yael Miriam Klass

Yael is the Content Lead at Slidely + Promo, making marketing easier and more effective through intuitive video creation. She lives and breaths content and creative storytelling in all its forms. When not developing innovative ideas to help global businesses big and small you can find her riding her bike through the streets of Tel Aviv and sipping iced coffee while listening to the latest pop culture podcasts.

Yaron Galai

Yaron is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Outbrain. Prior to founding Outbrain, Yaron was Co-Founder, SVP of Quigo, Inc., a provider of performance-based marketing solutions for advertisers and premium publishers. He previously served as the CEO of the company for three years. Quigo was acquired by AOL in December 2007. Previously, Mr. Galai was Co-Founder & VP Business Development at Ad4ever, a developer of rich-media advertising technologies for the web which was later acquired by Atlas (a division of aQuantive). Earlier, he was the Founder of NetWorks Web Design - an SEO and web design firm. At NetWorks he oversaw the production and search engine optimization of over 30 websites. Mr. Galai studied industrial design at the Holon Technological Institute, and is a Major (reserve) officer in the Israel Navy.

Yuval Ben Itzhak

Yuval is Chief Technology Officer at Outbrain. Yuval comes to Outbrain with more than 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur and senior technical leader at innovative companies like Finjan, Intel and AVG Technologies.
Prior to joining Outbrain in 2015, Yuval served as CTO at AVG Technologies (NYSE: AVG) for more than 5 years. While there, he established AVG's leading position in the mobile security market, demonstrated by more than 100 million downloads of its mobile products and 200 million active users. Yuval was also a key member of the leadership team that took the company public in 2012. Prior to AVG, Yuval was CTO of the cybersecurity company Finjan, where he led six international groups.
Yuval is a graduate of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel and a holder of 11 U.S. patents. He is a frequent commentator in business news outlets and also speaks regularly on the future of mobile, security, privacy, consumer dynamics, and disruptive innovation.

Yaniv Nava

Yaniv is a PPC Campaign Manager at Outbrain digital marketing team. He previously worked at Google AdWords support team & IBM Digital headquarters in Dublin. When he's not living the PPC world, he loves to surf, play basketball and travel the world.

Yael Shpaizman

Yael is Conversion Optimization Manager at Outbrain's digital marketing team.
She previously worked at dmg - DSNR Media Group and Reuveni Pridan. Her job is to learn users' online behaviour;
to understand what makes people tick and more specially what makes them click.

Yoav Tourel

Yoav is Head of Sales, APAC at Outbrain.
He joined Outbrain in 2012 as the Head of Account Strategy in Australia & New Zealand. Before that, he was born and bred as a media planner and for more than 13 years he worked in advertising, media and research roles, mostly in the agency land. He's also, a proud father of 3 girls (girls rock!), married to a vet (vets rock!). Oh, and some would say that he looks like Andre Agassi and sounds like Borat. Anyway, just call him "Joe" (or "Yoey").

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Ziv Avraham

Ziv is a Performance Strategist at Outbrain working with the amplify team in Israel. He previously led a strategy team at McCann Ericson, one of the leading creative agencies worldwide. Ziv has vast experience in planning, monetizing and optimizing campaigns, he works closely with brands and agencies in order to define goals and requirements prior to campaign launch and achieve their goals when the campaigns go live. Ziv lives in Tel-Aviv with his wife and loves outdoor extreme sports like surfing, downhill biking and snowboarding. Ziv holds a BA in Communication and Management.